If there is a fraudulent transaction, and someone can argue (albeit wrongly) "the only way the transaction could have happened is with your fingerprint" - won't this make it harder to dispute a charge?
Systems which are considered mission critical or whose loss/damage/downtime could endanger human life fall into a category of their own. This category tends to have failsafe design safeguards built from the ground up.
There is a reason air traffic control systems don't run Windows XP.
For the same reason, I expect such systems would have a large sign hanging off the front of them saying "Do NOT use this system for playing your new Britney CD".
I accept the argument he is making, however I believe the scenario is unlikely.
Exposed to a specific laser frequency, the DNA glows to a bright green. 'The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion,' said the president
And the chances of a potential purchaser having the specific laser to verify their purchase? About one in 35 trillion...
That only happens to American cars which will always explode in a ball of flames, but not until the hero can pull the important passengers to safety, and yell, "Watch out! She's gonna blow!"
The Bugmenot plugin for Firefox (and I assume other browsers) is broken at the moment. Bugmenot is aware of the problem, but it's a royal pain.
Even their home page is busted right now: "Uh oh. Something just broke. Probably because we are testing new code. The bugmenot administrators have been informed. Please stay tuned."
Hopefully the new upgrades will be worth the wait, it's a tremendously useful service.
I can understand trying to make a huge display on some public/office building with a huge amount of lights using a bunch of volunteers just to have fun, or to raise money from charity. But not when it's "OK, lets see how many more lights we can buy than the smith family can."
As opposed to say hotting up your car, modding your PC case or "lets see how many more bedrooms we can have than the Smith family"...
You say I am: willing to draw conclusions from irrelevent facts yet preface this by saying you don't need to read any relevant material further than a single tongue-in-cheek post on a very content rich blog?
Pot, kettle, black. Sorry.
As for your accusation that I "dismiss points of view based on what a person looks like not the content of their words" you are unbelievably mistaken. You don't know me, and the fallacy of your argument is amply demonstrated by the bulk of my content you have chosen to ignore. I daresay you don't have much of a sense of humour either. Of course I could be mistaken. Has anyone else ever told you that?
As for whether Indymedia is full of shit or not being besides the point, it is in fact the whole point of my blog. That you choose to ignore it and jump to a (wrong) conclusion is your problem, however I note it was your choice to visit the site. I doubt you'll be back and that is probably a shame.
The post you are referring to was written with tongue firmly in cheek. As was my previous comment. You seem quite reactionary yourself.
May I respectfully suggest you read some of the the rest of the blog for far more indisputable examples of what you have apparently dismissed (i.e. Indymedia being "full of shit"). You may be surprised/disturbed by what you see.
A while ago there was some research into giant tinfoil equipped satellites which could redirect sunlight onto the earth during darkness. Applications included agricultural (think world's biggest hydroponic setup) and emergency situations requiring 24hr illumination.
I don't know what happened, however between this and Solar Power Satellites transmitting solar generated electricity to earth via microwave I wonder if the research has hurricane implications.
That is, if they could construct an enormous sun-reflecting hurricane death-ray which could be projected/reflected into the eyes of hurricanes, or over oceans to heat the air/water before Hurricanes can form.
Playing with weather... Won't that annoy the hippies!
Given its length, and the presumably large number of people that could be on it at a time, I presume it would be a potential target for terrorists or organized crime (hey, it's Sicily...) based on past threats against bridges and tunnels by terrorist groups.
How would they prevent against this? It seems such a bridge has two critical failure points at both ends and one or more in the middle.
I know they have water to cross, so its size doesn't appear to be the motivation, as say for the tallest building etc. but I think these are issues which (sadly) need to be considered.
I've been reading on airline security recently. I have come to the conclusion that El-Al certainly do have the right idea about airline security and it has nothing to do with hidden or reinforced doors, which are only a part of an overall strategy.
The right idea is passenger profiling. Something they do, which is proven to work, but is regarded as "politically incorrect" or "potentially offensive" and thus vetoed by American airlines or government. Instead, they rely on all manner of technology which we now know (all too tragically) can fail badly.
El-Al tend to know the passengers aren't terrorists before they even get on the plane. That's the right idea.
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Biometric Bacon Authentication.
If there is a fraudulent transaction, and someone can argue (albeit wrongly) "the only way the transaction could have happened is with your fingerprint" - won't this make it harder to dispute a charge?
This is really going to fuck up Underwater Monopoly.
Systems which are considered mission critical or whose loss/damage/downtime could endanger human life fall into a category of their own. This category tends to have failsafe design safeguards built from the ground up.
There is a reason air traffic control systems don't run Windows XP.
For the same reason, I expect such systems would have a large sign hanging off the front of them saying "Do NOT use this system for playing your new Britney CD".
I accept the argument he is making, however I believe the scenario is unlikely.
And the chances of a potential purchaser having the specific laser to verify their purchase? About one in 35 trillion...
That only happens to American cars which will always explode in a ball of flames, but not until the hero can pull the important passengers to safety, and yell, "Watch out! She's gonna blow!"
Shh!!!
Next you'll be telling people that the iPod wasn't invented in 2005.
The Bugmenot plugin for Firefox (and I assume other browsers) is broken at the moment. Bugmenot is aware of the problem, but it's a royal pain.
Even their home page is busted right now: "Uh oh. Something just broke. Probably because we are testing new code. The bugmenot administrators have been informed. Please stay tuned."
Hopefully the new upgrades will be worth the wait, it's a tremendously useful service.
The guy who put on the "Wizards of Winter" display had to shut it down after it caused a vehicle accident a few weeks ago.
What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?"
At least French rioters will only need a match...
Let me get this straight...
You say I am: willing to draw conclusions from irrelevent facts yet preface this by saying you don't need to read any relevant material further than a single tongue-in-cheek post on a very content rich blog?
Pot, kettle, black. Sorry.
As for your accusation that I "dismiss points of view based on what a person looks like not the content of their words" you are unbelievably mistaken. You don't know me, and the fallacy of your argument is amply demonstrated by the bulk of my content you have chosen to ignore. I daresay you don't have much of a sense of humour either. Of course I could be mistaken. Has anyone else ever told you that?
As for whether Indymedia is full of shit or not being besides the point, it is in fact the whole point of my blog. That you choose to ignore it and jump to a (wrong) conclusion is your problem, however I note it was your choice to visit the site. I doubt you'll be back and that is probably a shame.
The post you are referring to was written with tongue firmly in cheek. As was my previous comment. You seem quite reactionary yourself.
May I respectfully suggest you read some of the the rest of the blog for far more indisputable examples of what you have apparently dismissed (i.e. Indymedia being "full of shit"). You may be surprised/disturbed by what you see.
Nah... The lack of hurricanes in my neighbourhood just lowered my thirst for knowledge of how to defeat them.
I already know how to defeat hippies...
Umm... Good point and I stand corrected.
Erm... What I meant to say umm... is do eomething or other with the sun to prevent a hurricane, besides heating water... Ummm...Yeah!
Sorry for any confusion.
A while ago there was some research into giant tinfoil equipped satellites which could redirect sunlight onto the earth during darkness. Applications included agricultural (think world's biggest hydroponic setup) and emergency situations requiring 24hr illumination.
I don't know what happened, however between this and Solar Power Satellites transmitting solar generated electricity to earth via microwave I wonder if the research has hurricane implications.
That is, if they could construct an enormous sun-reflecting hurricane death-ray which could be projected/reflected into the eyes of hurricanes, or over oceans to heat the air/water before Hurricanes can form.
Playing with weather... Won't that annoy the hippies!
We can look forward to taking our kids to Lego ^H^H^H^H Blocko Land...
Given its length, and the presumably large number of people that could be on it at a time, I presume it would be a potential target for terrorists or organized crime (hey, it's Sicily...) based on past threats against bridges and tunnels by terrorist groups.
How would they prevent against this? It seems such a bridge has two critical failure points at both ends and one or more in the middle.
I know they have water to cross, so its size doesn't appear to be the motivation, as say for the tallest building etc. but I think these are issues which (sadly) need to be considered.
And that sir, is why you were only modded 4 instead of 5 (like the other IANAL posts on Slashdot).
I've been reading on airline security recently. I have come to the conclusion that El-Al certainly do have the right idea about airline security and it has nothing to do with hidden or reinforced doors, which are only a part of an overall strategy.
The right idea is passenger profiling. Something they do, which is proven to work, but is regarded as "politically incorrect" or "potentially offensive" and thus vetoed by American airlines or government. Instead, they rely on all manner of technology which we now know (all too tragically) can fail badly.
El-Al tend to know the passengers aren't terrorists before they even get on the plane. That's the right idea.
Life is full of all kinds of sounds, not just loud ones, and if...you can't hear birds chirping and leaves rustling, you're missing a lot.
Umm...Dude, the guy reads Slashdot. Next you'll be telling him about the sky and sunsets.
Leather seats, check.
CD Stacker, check.
Driver's side airbag, check.
Tinfoil car-seat covers, check.
Let's roll.
If the URL in parent is broken, there's another mirror here.
If you haven't seen it, this is a hilarious example of voice enabled gaming strategy going horribly, horribly wrong.
In this case, a player being away from keyboard (AFK) long enough to miss all of the strategy.
Leeeeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins!!!!!
Obviously those who use the words "unified" and "Europe" in the same sentence never got the memo...